21st International Static Analysis Symposium

September 11-13, 2014 Munich, Germany

The Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award of 2014 was given to Aleksandar Chakarov for his paper Expectation Invariants for Probabilistic Program Loops as Fixed Points co-authored by Sriram Sankaranarayanan.

SAS 2015 will be held in Palais du Grand Large, Saint Malo, France in the period September 9-11, 2015. The associated workshops are planned for September 8.
For more information please visit the
SAS 2015 Website.

The proceedings, which appeared as
volume 8723 in Springer's LNCS series, are now available online. You can find
information about it or access the online version at Springer's websites.

Static Analysis is increasingly recognized as a fundamental tool for
program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program
understanding, and software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis
Symposia has served as the primary venue for the presentation of
theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area. The 21th
International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2014, will be held in
Munich, Germany. Previous symposia were held in Seattle, Deauville,
Venice, Perpignan, Los Angeles, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Seoul,
London, Verona, San Diego, Madrid, Paris, Santa Barbara, Pisa, Aachen,
Glasgow, and Namur.

Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including
concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic,
object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU
programming. Papers must describe original work, be written and
presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers
that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a
journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers
will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness,
originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been
accomplished and why it is significant. Paper submissions should not
exceed 15 pages in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS
format, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program
committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus
papers must be intelligible without them.

Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at

As last year, we are encouraging authors to submit a virtual
machine image containing any artifacts and evaluations presented in
the paper. The goal of the artifact submissions is to strengthen our
field's scientific approach to evaluations and reproducibility of
results. The virtual machine images accompanying accepted papers will be archived
on the permanent
Static Analysis Symposium website
to provide a record of past experiments and
tools, allowing future research to better evaluate and contrast
existing work.

Artifact submission is optional. We accept only virtual machine images that can be
processed with Virtual Box. Details
on what to submit and how will be sent to the corresponding authors by mail shortly
after the paper submission deadline.

The submitted artifacts will be used by the program committee as a
secondary evaluation criteria whose sole purpose is to find additional
positive arguments for the paper's acceptance. Submissions without
artifacts are welcome and will not be penalized.

Starting in 2014, the program committee of each SAS conference selects a paper
for the Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award, in memory of Radhia Cousot
and her fundamental contributions to static analysis, being also one of the main
promoters and organizers of the SAS series of conferences.

Submission deadline: abstracts must be received by March 7,
2014, and complete papers by March 14, 2014 March 16, 2014 (in each case: 11:59pm, American Samoa Time, i.e. UTC -11h). These deadlines
are strict; submissions where abstract or paper are received later
will not be evaluated.

In 2014, the conference will take place in
Novotel Munich City, situated near the river Isar and close to the city center:

Novotel München City
Hochstr. 11
81669 München
Germany

The venue is close to the S-Bahn station "Rosenheimer Platz" (compare, e.g., the map at the Novotel web site).
In order to reach the Rosenheimer Platz from the Airport, you may take any leaving S-Bahn (S1 or S8). There is an S-Bahn every 10 minutes. The trip takes about 35 minutes and costs about 10 Euro. Tickets can be bought in ticket machines at the airport.
You may buy a Airport-City-Day ticket that allows you to use all means of public transport within the MVV (Münchener Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund), i.e. S-Bahn (urban trains), regional trains, U-Bahn (underground), busses and trams from the moment of purchase until 6am of the following day for little more than the price of a single ticket.

News [10/09/14, 11:00 pm]: Due to a technical problem, S-Bahn train S1 runs only to Feldmoching from the Airport. So in order to reach Rosenheimer Platz from the Airport please use S8.

From the Main Railway Station, it is almost as easy to reach the venue: there any S-Bahn
in direction "Ostbahnhof" will do.

Munich is the
lively capital of Bavaria. Close to the alps, Munich hosts three universities
and a variety of touristic
attractions. These include museums such as the German museum for
technology and science, several first class theaters as well as
historical monuments built by the bavarian kings who took a keen
interest in art, construction and collection.